WASHINGTON (AA) – Donald Trump on Wednesday pledged to end the “suffering and destruction” in Lebanon, if he is elected to the White House. “During my Administration, we had peace in the Middle East, and we will have peace again very soon! “I will fix the problems caused by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) — A Malaysian court has ordered that former Prime Minister Najib Razak stand trial on December 2, in his second corruption case. Najib, 71, was jailed in 2022 in cases related to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a state fund he established to spur economic development after becoming prime minister in 2009. The High […]...
BAMAKO, Mali (AA) – The military administration in Niger has signed a pact for internet services with Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet venture, an official statement disclosed. Sidi Mohamed Raliou, communication, posts, and digital economy minister, said the agreement will allow Niger to benefit from a high-speed internet conn...
JERUSALEM (AA) — At least 80 Israelis, most of them soldiers taking part in wars in southern Lebanon or Gaza, have been killed by the Hezbollah and Hamas resistance groups this month. Israeli Army Radio dubbed the month “black October,” as 64 soldiers and police, along with 16 civilians, were killed in either southern Lebanon [&hel...
Prisoners support groups say prominent Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has been injured in a “brutal assault” in Megiddo Prison in northern Israel. In a joint statement, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society say Barghouti suffered bleeding in his right ear. The statement says Barghouti’s right arm was in...
Turkey’s Terror Crimes Investigation Bureau has filed charges of “premeditated murder” against the Israeli soldiers who deliberately targeted a Turkish-American activist. Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was fatally shot in the head while peacefully protesting the expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Anadol...
CNN has apologized to British-American broadcaster Mehdi Hasan after a conservative commentator on the show suggested he should be killed on live television. The network removed Ryan Girdusky after he told Hasan, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” This was in reference to deadly attacks linked to Israel that killed 40 people in Lebanon [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine’s permanent representative to the UN warned Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza face imminent execution for refusing to abandon their land and homes. Riyad Mansour was speaking at a session of the UN Security Council focused on the situation in the Middle East. Mansour ...
The State Department has expressed concern about Israel’s move to ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. Spokesman Matthew Miller says the move poses risks for millions of Palestinians who rely on UNRWA for essential services. These include health care and primary and secondary education. Miller’s ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, D.C., faced protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy. With just one week until the presidential election on Nov. 5, Harris held a rally at the Ellipse in the capital, the same site where form...
